Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield acknowledged that "opposition has hardened and may well have increased" during the recess. Even so, the President argued angrily at a news conference that both the Judiciary Committee and the Senate can still produce majorities to report out and approve the Fortas nomination, if a filibuster can be averted...
...other reformist leaders worked frantically to keep their people from committing national suicide. In an urgent appeal to the National Assembly, they had implored the Deputies to refrain from inflaming the tense situation. The Deputies insisted on issuing their protest, but then they reluctantly went into recess. In a radio address, the President of the Parliament, Josef Smrkovský, argued that the present regressions represented only a temporary setback. He and the other leaders, he said, had accepted the Soviet dictates, and the attendant crackdowns on personal and political liberty, in hopes of getting the occupation lifted. "We are sure...
...Harvard community needed a shock to begin acting on racial problems, the black students provided it a week after King's death. Harvard held a service in Memorial Church on the second day back from Spring recess, but the black students did not attend--they conducted their own service on the steps of Mem Church...
...demonstrators accompanied the five men to Post Office building on Jan. 29 for their arraignment, only a few television cameramen greeted them yesterday. The only remarkable event outside the courtroom resulted when a giant crane overturned on Congress St. during the hearing. Spock strolled over during the lunch recess to inspect the wreckage...
McCarthy in Ted Kennedy's office. He offered Johnson impossible terms for reconciliation (see box). Through an old friend, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, Kennedy told the White House of his final decision to run. On Friday, Kennedy took a brief recess, flew to Long Island to serve as official fall guy at a club luncheon. Kennedy took the ribbing, managed to ignore a belly dancer's gyrations while studying his notes...